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heres news fob the bust fabmeb dairy food promotion to commence in sept dairy farmers of canada ad- vertulcg getaside 11v be col lected in ontario during the month of september according to erie kitchen secretary- manager of the national proi plough coulters today there are several types of coulters 03 the mar ket and the choice may be as important as change of plough or adjustment says j g kemp ontario farm land area is shrinking ontario farm land is being consumed for other purposes at agricultural engineer centra experimental farm ottawa although the knife edge has ducer organization the nor- replaced by the rolling ma june set aside which prfr j coulter the former is still a ceeded as usual in the rest of handy pece of equipment in canada had been postponed in stoney land or for heavy roots ontario to coincide with the b surface trash limits the ex- ontario stabilization plan that tent of its use a knife edge was to have started in august but was subsequently post poned mr kitchen states that 2greemeit has been reached be tween the dairy producer and operating groups in ontario to carry the setaside forward with vigor during th month of september the setaside of will allow a plough to penetrate where other coulters will hold it out today most tractor ploughs are equipped with rolling coul ters because of superior trash handling ability the larger the diameter of the coulter the greater the amount of trash it a centapound butterfat fihan- j mount and cut cos the national advertising j a clean job of ploughing can program in support of dairy j be done if a jointer is used but ifoods ontario producers set- a jointer may be a source of aside more than 143000 in trouble in heavy trash one 1054 as their contribution to th national advertising budget of 367000 in view of the fact that milk production is down normally in september mr kitchen points out that the cooperation of all branches of the industry in on tario is imperative if this prov ince is to maintain its contri bution to the national budget in a joint statement a steel president ont dairy proces sors council and w h hoiles president ont miik producers coordinating board have poin ted out to all operators and pro ducers the valuable job of dairy tfjod promotion provided by the national program it was their conviction that the spe cial september setaside should receive strong support from all branches of the industry end of bushel measure urged just maybe the bushel as a unit of measure may go the way of the horse at least it will if important leaders in the us grain industry have anything to say about it seems theres a drive on now to switch over to measuring grain and similar products in 100pound units instead of bu shels proponents claim the changeover could save millions of dollars by eliminating con version calisthenics heres an example of what they mean farmer brown takes a truck- load of grain to the local ele vator and is quoted the current price on a bushel basis fixrd ratio used but his loaded truck is weighed in pounds emptied and weighed again the difference js the net weight of the grain this is divided by a fixed ratio of pounds per bushel depend ing on the kind of grain the result is multiplied by the price per bushel to find out how much brown gets says earl m ellis general manager of a chicago feed man ufacturing firm the extra combination offered has a roll ing disc jointer to meet this problem however the jointer itself is not selfcleaning in sticky soil three coulters the notched wavy edg and concave disc have been designed in art at tempt to give positive turning and cutting action they all work very well in heavy trash and are also adaptable to soils of low resistance where a stan dard straight disc tends to drag the notched and wavy edge are difficult to sharpen and have a shorter life than the standard coulter the coverage of a con cave disc is not so complete as other coulters with jointers as an added note ploughing of cornstalks can be made much easier by travelling in the same direction as the corn pick er time and labor in converting bushels to hundredweight and back again in marketing grain off the farm and until its final use annually costs the govern ment grain exchanges mills and feed mixers millions of dollars these unnecessary costs of marketing are of course fin ally borne by either the pro ducer or the consumer or both bushel troubles go deeper than that though ellis empha sizes supposing farmer brown is selling oats standard weight is 32 pounds a bushel yet newer heavier varieties com monly weigh 37 to 42 pounds a bushel the differential on mil lions of bushels is stupendous common in west on the west coast trading of grain and feedstuffs by the hun dredweight has been in effect for many years the poultry producers of central california note that grain firms in california who report to midwest and eastern offices must convert their fig ures from hundredweight to bushels been more noticeable in recent ye3rs prof a c robertson of the department of agricultural eco nomics at the onario agricul tural college points out the provinces farm acreage has de creased by 450000 acres since 1901 the number of occupied farms has decreased by 50000 in that period in spite of a the reduction in acreage and in the number of farms the total farm value land buildings machinery and livestock is three times what it was in 1901 today on tario farms are worth 2547- 989000 compared with s932- 4s3000 in 1901 much farm land is used up in the natural development of larger cities and all the serv ices they demand highways power lines pipe lines airports industrial sites and residential areas all encroach on some of neighbors barefoot farm boy th stourtylue towns thursday awl 25 1955 pje 5 activity on the farm always hit its peak when threshing time came threshing was about the on ly operation that had to be clone by a custom operator on our farm or any early farm it was about the only task that could not be done by exchang ing work with our neighbors there was a limited number of threshing outfits in a farm district they were operated by custom threshermen the machines would be kept busy from wheat threshing in early august unti the last mow in the district was threshed out about christmas time except for special occasions of emergency or convenience the outfit would go from farm to farm in rotation the equipment was the sep arator and a horsepower to run it the separator and horse power were each pulled around by a team of horses owned by the thresherman these two teams were hitched to the horsepower during actual oper ations along with other teams supplied by the farmer and his ontarios best farming areas there is also a lass of farm land to conservation authori ties district and county forests and to erosion by lakes and rivers any reduction in farm land area should increase the de mand for farm land as farrtv ers leave the highly taxed areas near cities they create new de mand for land further away they also leave part of a mar ket unfilled and more distant producers should benefit in filj- ing this market other factors also increase farm value for instance a new highway near by may open the area to sub urban development with the possibility of six million people in ontario by 1951 each farmer should real ize that his farm is becoming increasingly important says prof robertson this increase in population should improve domestic markets and mean less reliance on foreign outlets for primary products film council news with the beginning of the school term in sight it is a good time to decide if you are going to take advantage of the films that the national film board have in stock many teachers now realize what a help the films are in teaching many subjects the children seem to be able to grasp the lesson more readily when it is demonstrated by films than by an hour of talk ing our films are varied and cover every imaginable subject from mice to atoms anyone interested in the films may write to any of the following mrs c keevil claremont mr e suiman port perry mrs deeming myrtle mrs w carter rr 1 pick ering the horsepower is fairly diffi cult to describe possibly some of you may have seen the one in operation at the internation al plowing match at ereslau last year they are real mus eum pieces now gear system gave speed to line shaft possibly it would best be de scribed as being a large wheel laid horizontally on the ground with five elongated spokes aoout 20 feet long five teams of horses were hitched to the spokes and walked round and round in a circle a system of reducing gears on the underside of the wheel were connected to a line shaft one revolution of the big wheel would speed up the line shaft to about 200 revolutions the hoiccs could walk once around the machine in a minute so that they would be driving the line shaft at about 200 revo lutions a minute this of course could be increased to whatever speed was required by using different size drive pulleys it was no mean sight to see five teams travelling in close formation around and around the machine they were driven or perhaps i should say kept going by the driver standing on a small wooden platform in the centre of the revolving ma chine with a long whip he could reach each horse that needed a little stimulation as the platform revolved with the machine the driver had to keep lifting one foot then the other in a kind of walking motion in the opposite direction in which the horses and machine were travelling thus was so he could keep an eye on all the teams they used to say that the drivers own horses never did their share of the work he kept up a continuous chatter to the horses yip yip yip come along come along interspaced with a lip noise no word in english car express but even after 65 years i think i can give a fair reproduction of it the threshing outfit would try to arrive at a farm to give a half or full days run if it came late in the afternoon the crew would work that night unti they had it set up ready to go at 7 am the next day floors were cleared and bin prepared the crew of three boarded on the farm during threshing operations housewives did not appreciate these visitors they did not and could not make any attempt to keep their clothes and bodies cle3n they were black most of the time and made a sorry mess of the beds and bedrooms they occu pied threshing required a lot of advance preparation the thre shing floor of the barn had to be cleared of the previous months accumulations the granary and bins had to be made ready for the grain in the house the womenfolk were busy for days baking up bread buns cakes pies and a host of other good things the pride of the average housewife was to provide plenteous and tasty meals for the threshers it would be the subject of year- round gossip in the neighbor hood if any farmer and his wife faiied to provide plenty of food on these occasions the meat alone a gang of 12 to 15 hungry men could consume was appall ing on occasion 1 saw father butcher a calf or a sheep in preparation for the threshers during these preparations i used to become so excited i could hardly eat homework got short shrift i would wait expectantly for the first sound of the machine to approach incidentally the coming of the thresing machine could be heard a long distance and the clatter of the loosely packed strawcarriers on the top of the machine had a sould all its own distinguishable from any other noise produced bywagons on the road it would be a most regrettable occasion if the coming of the threshing machine was delayed past my bedtime and i had to forego the excitement of see ing the arrival the placing of the big machine on the barn floor and the horsepower un loaded in position outside a brief description of a separ ator as a threshing machine was called might not be amiss as the name implied its pur pose was to separate the shea ves of grain into three main classes most important of the classes was the grain itself but straw and chaff were also important keeping the grass and weed seeds separate from the grain was also important the general design and prin ciple of the thresher have not changed in the last 75 years the newest machines today however have a series of kni- moreextrasat no extra cost in the great big beautiful extra features and facts dodge carf carc overall lengthdodge is longest inits field 2074 1985 195 full wraparound windshieldwtaps at top and bottom yes no no adjustable highlevel ventilation fully adjustable yes no no electric windshield wipersoonstantspeed opetation yes no no rear vent windowsbetter rear compartment ventilation yes no no resistortype spark plugsiasl up to 5 times longer yes no no orifiow shock absorbers selfadjosting automatic yes no no dualcylinoer front wheel brakesmore even braking yes no no bondedtype brake lining longer wear more grip area yes no yes independent parking brakesepaiate braking system yes no no safetyrim wheelshelp hold lire on wtieel in blowouts yes no ns v total 11 0 1 sure theres a difference in lowpriced cars and with dodge the difference is all in your favour for dodge at its price is best in every way that means value dodge leads in size with the longest car in the lowest priced field dodge sets the pace in style with the balanced beauty of motiondesign for the forward look dodge gives you new highs in performance too with the longlived thrift of the powerflow 6 or the dynamic power of an advanceddesign hyfire v8 your dodgedesoto dealer will be happy to arrange a demonstration drive best of all hes offering tradein allowances that mean even bigger savings for you now manufactured in canada by chrysler corporation ot canada limited ps if youre looking for a good used ear ice yor dodgede soto dealers wide selection of depend able used cars theyre tops in town for valuol ves that cut the bands on the sheaves the separated grain is thrown or blown into the granary the straw is cut and blown by a cutter to the far thest part of the mow and the chaff is separated and blown to another part of the barn if desired and it is likely the modern barn has a ventilating system to get rid of the chok- ling dust machine spilled grain into bushel baskets i remember in the machines that ued to visit our place the grain was delivered from the side of the machine into bushel baskets depending on the crop yield one or two men carried the baskets to the granary the straw was not blown on to a stack or into the mow but was carried on a mechanical contraption to the edge of the mow where several men had to fork it kick and tramp it the chatt together with all the dust dirt and smut was blown out the tack of the ma chine by a fan the rear end of the barn became so thick with dust that you could hard ly see a person near you removing the chaff was one job you couldnt even ask your best friend to do when thresh ing was going on at your place you could count on one or two days of pure misery a gang of about a dozen neighbors came in to help at threshing time the host desig nated to each the task for the day usually the young active fellows were chosen to work in the mow to carry the sheaves to the machine one particular ly active man was chosen as band cutter on him and the men in the mow depended the volume of work done the actual feeding of the ma chine was done by the thresh ing crew who accompanied the outfit they were so expert that they could handle any quantity the mow gang threw at them middle aged men were chosen to handle the straw the bill of fare as i remem ber it at noon dinner was hot roast meat potatoes a couple of kinds of other vegetables a couple kinds of pickles bread butter apple butter maple syr up fresh apple sauce pudding or pie or both with tea or cof fee the supper would vary probably with cold meat moun tains of fried potatoes with a good general assortment of ev erything else yes threshing was the event of the year a time everybody but me was glad to see past and gone i still love to remi nisce and even now can recount much detail of a threshing bee would that i once again could sit down to a table loaded with all the delicious food but now lacking the appetite and ener gy that accompanies youth i would not find it any more sat isfying or tasty than the good meals we have been enjoying in modern times threshing by horsepower gave way to the use of the steam engine between 1880 and 1s90 some farmers including my father fearing danger of fire used the horsepower after the use of the engine had be come general it was not until 1887 that a steam engine was used on our farm the treadmill was not used extensively and then only for a specific operation it was in stalled permanently in one lo cation for such jobs as pulping turnips cutting straw and may be grinding grain we never had one on our farm most people know the prin ciple of this machine an ani mal is led onto an inclined plat form and must keep walking or fall down as the animal walk ed the platform kept revolving and thus supplied power to a shaft on which a pulley was at tached the pulley was belted to the maohine to be driven horses were generally used oh treadmills however some were made smaller and oper ated by dogs i recall on sever al occasioas on a farm near hespeler seeing a dog operating a treadmill which supplied power to turn a churn for most of his power however the farmer depended upon the circular horsepower i often wonder why it disappeared so quickly from the farm scene possibly it was too cumbersome and farmers were glad to get rid of it when something less awkward came along in the form of the steam engine and the tractor high school the stouffvijle district high school will reopen on tuesday september 6th at 9 am the only supplies needed for the first day are a pencil and a memo pad and students are advised not to purchase any texts beforehand the school buses will follow last years routes until registration has been completed mr robbins will be at the school saturday september 3rd from 9 to 12 and from 1 to 4 to interview any stu dents or parents who may wish to see him before school formally opens butfonvilie news correction please the but- tonville wl meeting will be held in buttonville hall on thursday of this week august is at 815 the church service for the victoria square circuit was held at browns corners unit ed church last sunday morn ing the speaker was professor john macpherson of victoria college mrs george hooper was the soloist and gave a beautiful rendition of how lovely are thy dwellings the service will be held in headford church next sunday morning at 11 oclock mrs james miller and jamie spent last week at a cottage with the horton family jim brought them home in time to attend a wedding saturday af ternoon sunday school at browns corners church next sunday morning will commence at 10 oclock mr and mrs walter craig have returned from a motor trip which took them to the adirondacks john and janet visited mr and mrs laudei hamilton at colgan sympathy of the community is extended to the wellman family of headford who sus tained the loss of a husband and father last week mr and mrs james rodick and their three nephews john and jimmy jackson and john rodick spent last weekend at the grants cottage near dorset lwmfcitwfcfc concrete blocks pine orchard block co cedar valley phone mount albert 2916 tmtmimtttttttmwtmimmmi crea for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery i cold storage lockers for immediate rentals stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 186w ahmikiiiumimmtivftvfimut mmammm ihwrtihi osuno keyson motors limited wephoot 390w uk cattle shipped to canada canada bought 174 head of british livestock in the second quarter of this year it was an nounced recently in london by the uk livestock group the total figure for both canada and the united state was 102 an increase over the total of im for the same period of 1w4 there is a forest of 3000 acres in belifontaine france that has been continuously managed and harvested for over a thousand years and still produces a good living for mary peopl we build homes large and small and buildings of all kinds repairs and remodelling good materials and workmanship guaranteed our house designing service is at your disposal k w betz construction co stouffville ont phoo stoaff 1s